by Jonathan Doherty | May 18, 2020 | Monday Magic
The world feels upside down. Our lives, as well. We search for normalcy, but cannot find it. We desire plans for the future — anticipation of good things to come — but cannot see when those plans will ripen. Some of us just seek to get by. One day to the...
by Jonathan Doherty | May 11, 2020 | Monday Magic
What’s right outside the window in a suburban yard? The year-round resident bird species might be more than you expect. But, now the magic is expanding dramatically as new migrants arrive daily. (Photos: clandestinewren photography) In the recurring theme of...
by Jonathan Doherty | May 4, 2020 | Monday Magic
You might easily pass it by. Just another tree along a trail in your county park. But, thirty feet above the ground someone naps through the day. (Photos: clandestinewren photography) It’s continuously astonishing how much goes on around us that we don’t...
by Jonathan Doherty | Apr 27, 2020 | Monday Magic
It often happens on a spring day like this, cool and crisp. A weather front has moved through and the skies have brightened. There is a feeling of renewal in the air. And the trees are alive with magic. (Photos: top, CCP/Doherty; warblers, clandestinewren photography;...
by Jonathan Doherty | Apr 20, 2020 | Monday Magic
Our local parks and preserves are coming to life. And a lot of it is happening on the forest floor. Spring beauties are re-emerging in abundance in many places. (Photos: CCP/Doherty) A relatively cool April is making some of the Chesapeake magic last! And the...
by Jonathan Doherty | Apr 13, 2020 | Monday Magic
Right now, this very moment, Eastern Redbuds are in peak bloom throughout the middle of the Chesapeake watershed. There’s really nothing quite like this native understory tree species in spring. And we all need a view of it this year in particular! Redbuds...
